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Monday, March 05, 2007

Shit i think ive been ignoring my blog. As a result it's dead(: whoops!!
alot alot (to an exponential magnitude) has happened since the last time i've blogged. Actually ive even written out a post but too lazy to type. ah i shall do it someday i promise..dont really think anyone reads my blog anyway. those who used to or still do, talk to me to find out how im doing. lol. neway..some links..ive an lj and my class blog.

LJ: http://valandil-dreww.livejournal.com/
Class blog: http://community.livejournal.com/07s7b/

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7:31 AM
*************** Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Hi guys. Something i would like to share..

Well after working for a week or so as customer service at chan brothers, i learnt lotsa stuff..tangibles like the information abt other countries and travel stuff. but of course the more impt stuff are the intangibles like handling people, about working life and how the real world is like. Being a teenager, i must say that before i tried working, i thought that i was ready for the real world. i thought that i was mature enough. Well, i was, but only to a certain extent, even with the experience i gained from ncc in handling ppl(:

But anyway, work was interesting to me as i learnt alot of stuff abt other countries. However, answering calls regarding a whole plethora of matters, ranging from the easy calls for enquiries to the calls from nasty customers that are irritating ad nauseam, is not as easy as it might seem.
So ytd i had a call from someone who demanded to speak to a certain person but she wasnt arnd. Then he demanded and demanded but the higher-ranked the person he wanted to see, the more angry he got cuz all of them happened to be busy or not in. From manager to GM to director. So aside from the verbal abuses he gave to me and my snr (i passed the call to my snr after i knew i couldnt handle it) in the end it was settled by one of the tour consultants. That incident was fcked up but still was okay relatively.

But today i had another incident that truly affected me. That customer's tour happened to be unable to leave as there werent enough ppl, so they were supposed to be transferred to another tour. However, he said someone called MrLee told him that the tour just needed 4 more ppl to leave. So i tried to find whos that Mrlee but in the whole dept there's only one mr lee and he said he didnt speak to a customer with such enquiries. So after a few calls, when i told him i really couldnt find Mr Lee, he exploded on the phone. From the phone i could even hear him bang the table and he shouted "bullshit" so loudly that i couldnt hear what he said at first. and then came the whole myriad of indecent vulgarities that of course included the f word and at that time i was controlling my own anger like mad. Was shaking with anger, thoughts zipping through my head as quickly as the blood that rushed. He even threatened to write to the press, for goodness sake. What a bitch man. Ended up, my snr tried to handle it but in the end was my manager who handled it. After i passed the phone to my snr, i was alrdy shaking internally, and as much as i told myself its not worth it being angry for such a person, its not worth it, tears started to form alrdy, as a result of controlling all that anger. But i managed to curb my own anger temporarily after a visit to the toilet to take a look at myself in the mirror and to tell myself to calm down. Really have to thank a few of my pals-cum-colleagues there for trying to help, with words like "take it easy". Yup so i continued taking a few more calls before it was time to go.

My parents came to fetch me from work as i was supp to go get my contacts. mhmm at first i tried not to show my feelings but my mum could see that i had that sian look so she asked and the moment i started talking abt it, i totally burst into a fusion of tears and rage that i had held in my chest for the past hour or so, and god i can say that its the most painful feeling - holding such fury in ur chest. My chest still hurts a lil when i take a deep breath now, even if its already quite a few hours after i let it go.

So, i talked abt it to my parents. They let me get it off my chest before sharing a lil of their own experiences and all. I even learnt that my cousin, whos working as a doctor now, had his own experience. My aunt told my mum that he locked himself in his room, crying cuz of some incident at the workplace when he was just a houseman at the hospital or sth. Yup so parents might discipline you or whatever, but when u need them, i guess they are always there for u when u need them(:

Yup so i definitely grew up a lil and learnt alot from this incident per se. Dont worry i'm alright now i guess, except for that nagging feeling that is in my chest when i take a deep breath. As the saying goes, what doesnt kill you makes you stronger. Indubitably, I'm stronger mentally as a result..So to that particular customer, Mr Gan, i've to say both fck you and thank you. To that MrLee whose identity we dont know- Damn, i wish u knw how much stuff u caused just cuz of the wrong info u gave and ur total irresponsibility.

Mmhm this shall be my personal AAR(after action review for those who dont know) but thought that i shld share this with yall. To sum it up, if you want to know the real world and whether ur ready for it and to check out how mature u actually are, do try working part-time and if possible, customer service wld really challenge you, esp if ur as unlucky as me to get such customers. Yupp cheerios ppl! shall take a deep breath and smile(:

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8:10 AM
*************** Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Whoo batch dinner wuz..better than i thot it wld be.

Duno bout what most felt, but i wuz quite sad when the slideshow and emotional music wuz played at the last part. The memories..lol yea tears did feel my eyes im not afraid to admit cuz as much as we might diss the school and complain abt all sorts of shit we hafta go thru and stuff, i guess we cant deny that there are lotsa memories that we have of the ppl. Mm yea every batch is different and i guess mine is special as well. Yea well... this wuz quite a night..din expect to be touched. wuz trying not to feel sad but yet when i looked arnd and saw some ppl with tears in their eyes, i cant help but be affected, cuz they are friends, schoolmates, ppl who ive grown up with, be it close or distant friends. yeaa call me emo but im sure some of you did cry, no? haha dont bluff la.

okay im talking to myself, but oh whatever.. batch dinner 06(: whee.
went to cine after the dinner. played a lil of pool..rusty like hell. joseph is gd i must say. then watched the 1.45am show. deathnote. lol its quite a nice movie la. the main character light is a freaking smartass. ah but the prestige wuz nice too.. watched it on sunday.

besides the fun, i really din do well for eoys yea. seriously. borderline make it into jc. argh im off-form and imustworkhardman. blehs. nxt yr seems exciting yet challenging.lol' oh yes im going for popping lessons every thurs. cool shit. yup but im still a noob la(:

alrighttt. shall end this post here.
cya ppl. gotta go watch so u think u can dance 2. i recorded(:

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5:50 AM
*************** Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Ello. lol everytime i feel like blogging, i just have so much to say that i just think "forget it man, i'll waste too much time.." but anyways, im just gonna type this entry before dinner..

Lotsa stuff has happened..well more memorable ones...the dance sabbatical? hahas. okay i learn more abt bboying and modern funk+ hiphop. learnt routines la. and we had to put up a performance. teacher's day was last thurs and i was thinking the whole week that it was impossible..well we only had 2 routines and 1 of them is freaking abstract and tough. so left 1. yeapp ppl 1 routine of modern funk and we need to put up a performance? like, wtf?

but some of the sec3s apparently told them we could. so we were kinda dragged...me, stan, yuhan, jared, glenn. haha but whatever..so i choreographed a lil on tues till it wuz pretty late. on wed, there was the rehearsal after school but kinda like, no one except the sec4s turned up! omgwtf. they said we culd perform and yet they din come? uhh ok only charlton and boon yang and ronald came in the end. ms sim was low on morale i culd see. i was feeling kinda helpless. haha..so we started rehearsing and i pretty much choreographed most of it except the individual display...so it was entry+funkroutine+indiv display+funkroutine+end. oh well..so we practised till like...10pm? damn shag la can.

so we pretty much the thing prepared. i managed to do a simple air freeze..and i had a solo part in the indiv display..oh wow. funny i din feel really nervous. so came the big day on thurs. it went well in hci i guess. just that the audience wuz freaking stoned-.- but who cares. we pulled it off. and i managed to do the air freeze well(: so we went to sc for our 2nd performance. i think it din go that well cuz ours wld look nicer on stage then in an amphitheatre with the audience 360 degrees surrounding. but there's a catch. they've a wonderful dance culture..so they werent stoned. if ur reading this and ur from scgs, i wld like to say that ur sch's dance culture rocks.hahaha. but i think it wasnt impressive...ah well. had to say thanks then it was pretty anticlimax but nvm.. i think if they knew we only had a few hours to put all this together to form a performance, they wld have appreciated it more. definitely.

but this aside, i was helluva satisfied cuz our crew of inexperienced dancers..managed to pull it off without making a laughing stock of ourselves. i was surprised and yet reassured when i saw the effort put in and it paid off. being the main choreographer of this performance, i must say that the experience was great whatsoever regardless of how successful it was. oh and stan wuz great cuz he was super pro at counting the beats and working out how many beats we need etc. so much respect to u bro(: haha anyone who saw the performance, kindly tell me how we can improve la k. i wld appreciate it alot. comment on my solo part if u want..cuz i really wanna improve..guess this is spurred on by my somewhat new-found passion for dance..okay not exactly new-found...has been quite a few months alrdy.but oh well. im definitely inspired. brings back the dilemma i had whether to join dance or bball in jc. somehow, it seems bball has no future so now im leaning more towards dance(:

this is the time of the year to go kap for regular mugging sessions. i realised i actually spend quite a lot on food.lol ok thas all for now. be it [bball forever] or [dance forever], itz time for mugging now. if i wanna join dance or bball, i gotta get to jc first(: k cya ppl.

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5:41 AM
*************** Saturday, July 29, 2006

heh i havent really blogged much for the past weeks..
the influx of tests..blehs. now that we've alrdy ORDed, all the things that we've gone thru wuld only remain as memories. yeapp. oh wells..jiayou to the current ncos then(:
zz oh yea, i think kurara chibana is hothothot:b

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9:49 PM
*************** Friday, July 21, 2006

just some food for thought..

Fritz Redl:
Boredom will always remain the greatest enemy of school disciplines. If we remember that children are bored, not only when they don't happen to be interested in the subject or when the teacher doesn't make it interesting, but also when certain working conditions are out of focus with their basic needs, then we can realize what a great contributor to discipline problems boredom really is. Research has shown that boredom is closely related to frustration and that the effect of too much frustration is invariably irritability, withdrawal, rebellious opposition or aggressive rejection of the whole show.

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11:49 PM
*************** Friday, June 30, 2006

time: 9.28pm
here i am at school. waiting for the others to bring back burgers.zzz
sch since the start of the term has been hectic with all the new informantion overloading..gosh, still lotsa work to be done. blehs><

wed was great though(: shuang wen hua fabiao hui. like who gives a damn abt it:b itz just another chance for the facils to meet again! x) after the main event, we kinda waited for kelly and wenrui to finish with their class funfair stuff before heading to coro for dinner. golden rooster! ahaha the norm for those in ny or hci. met yuhan and hui2 there. reached home at bout 9 plus i think..took 67 with jingwen, minhua and jinghui(: dear minhuaries was sick though and she slept peacefully throughout the ride while jw and jh gave me a crash course on probability. lol but ms wun decided to cancel the quiz so oh wells. that reminds me. gotta return jw her phy ws that i took accidentally and jh, his math ws.

mmmm ny funfair tmr. shuld be goin with jw they all i think..if not i go with my bros then enthu bout ny facils then quite sian for them. heh all facils to meet at sick bay tmr. LOL we shall lie on the beds and slack in the aircon. heh shhhh dont tell anyone;) rawr im feeling damn hungry now my mom shuld be damn pissed now. itz alrdy 9.41pm! like wth! who takes so long to get from kap to hci hurr. -stomach growls

reminiscing about the hols. guess it was the most eventful of all june hols. 1st wk: preparation for nc and bsp camp. 2nd wk: bspcamp. facils!<3><><

bouts of depression cuz of missing them so much. so we had a second gathering on the fri before sch starts x) steamboat at marina bay. shall copy from yh's blog cuz the food finally arrived and im munching away so ctrl+c and ctrl+v is much more convenient(:

"We reached marina bay and got AP-ed by some 400 bus uncle. He only took half of us when there were still alot of space left. So we got off early and walked back to find the others.We were walking to tt place when this empty 400 came driving back and IT WAS THE SAME UNCLE N HE SMIRKED AT US. so anw reached the steamboat place.
leekoon, "aunty give us discount leh..."
andrew to me, "ya..we shuang wen hua one."
me to aunty. "AUNTY. wo men shi BSP de. gei wo men discount laa..." hahahh
We tried fried rice /egg on the plate thingy tts covered in aluminiun foil. First fried egg failed cuz didn't put enough butter. Second one was super nice cuz andrew saved it! hahahah. And he has the nicest songs. Darren left. Yinghao couldnt comee :((
Wenta arcade then lk's hse. We watched the sixth sense and BATTLE ROYALE. sixth sense ending wuz super touching n made my best fren cry~~ BR omg the plot was great but the idea sucks lar. Wad life is a game, kill to survive. Rubbishcrap. That spastic man really looks like Reno, the main girl looks like Yuna and guy like Tidus. Seriously FF lar.Slept thru most of GTO. After tt movie it was 7+ already and we slacked and talked til 8 plus. And somehow everyone FELL ASLEEP AND it was 1020 when we woke up mann. Had chilli crab noodles at 7-11 with jingwen (HAHA prev day was dj).Kelly Lokky and Yuxuan left n we went to coro prince n had chicken chop."

heh dont whack me from copying:b

guess we're really all ADDICTED to each other man. see each other then when fen1 kai1 alrdy will be damn sad. then will have like...facil hangover lol. but im so so happy that ive met this grp of ppl that made a huge difference in my life. been happier these days and more motivated to study so that i'll make it to jc nxt yr. nostalgia of the gatherings creeping in..now sittin beside yuxuan and we talk bout facils a great deal.aww we rock big time man <33>
shall dedicate the songs blind (lifehouse), 1000 words (ffx-2) and miss you (sweetbox) to everyone of us(: heh cuz i miss you, cuz i really miss you...thanks ppl tmr gonna meet quite alot of y'all. this is great yea. nxt time we'll meet is 1507 chi drama perf(: yh lk performing. dianjun and lau jj directors. heh jiayou ppl.
but after that.. guess its just small grps of us possibly meeting until the hols! heh we shall rock the dec hols. yeaaa

mm i shall be off to finish the food. itz 10.07pm now. mm goin home soon.. kay cya ppl.

facils<33

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